Learn from the Masters

Many of us have studied Faulkner and Hemingway, Austen and Poe, Dickens and Dumas, but what about more recent writers from the twentieth and twenty-first […]

Women’s Fiction Night Road

  Night Road, by Kristin Hannah:   Women’s fiction NIGHT ROAD probes the hearts of motherless teen Lexi Baill, an interloper in the privileged Puget […]

Enthuse / Enthusiasm / Enthusiastic

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse people. I have found the following to be among them: ENTHUSE / ENTHUSIASM / […]

Thriller Night Fall

Thriller Night Fall, by Nelson DeMille: I, John Corey, never could resist a challenge. So when my FBI-agent wife waves under my nose a five-year-old closed […]

Enormity / Enormousness

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse people. I have found the following to be among them: ENORMITY / ENORMOUSNESS More […]

Mystery Night and Day

Night and Day, by Robert B. Parker:   Obsession. It’s a killer. But voyeur Night Hawk can’t help himself as he escalates from Peeping Tom […]

Emigrate / Immigrate / Migrate

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse people. I have found the following to be among them: EMIGRATE / IMMIGRATE / […]

Political Drama The Appeal

The Appeal, by John Grisham:   The fates of a small Mississippi town and beleaguered husband-and-wife law firm Payton & Payton depend on a supreme court […]

Eek / Eke

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse people. I have found the following to be among them: EEK / EKE The […]

Police Thriller Beyond Recognition

Beyond Recognition, by Ridley Pearson:   As spectacular fires light up the skies of Seattle, homicide detective Lou Boldt and police psychologist Daphne Matthews join forces […]